What ॎ means
Write it after the consonant; shaping shows it on the left.
Devanagari vowel signs attach to a consonant and specify its vowel. For e, write consonant ॎ; for ai, o, and au, add े, ा, or ो after ॎ, respectively. The sequences कॎ, कॎे, कॎा, and कॎो correspond to modern के, कै, को, and कौ.
What does ॎ mean?
It is a historic spelling mark that changes a consonant's vowel.
It records a vowel spelling rather than carrying a separate symbolic meaning. A Nāgarī inscription describes forming an initial ai by adding this sign to the e vowel mark.
The wider trail includes the Bakhshali manuscript and a Hund inscription dated 775 CE. Sharada and Nandinagari are historic Indian scripts that preserve the same method: Sharada examples span the 8th to 16th centuries, with use declining in the 15th century, while a Hoysala copper plate inscription in Nandinagari is dated 1204 CE. Jain palm-leaf manuscripts show this spelling beside a later convention, a change in how words were spelled rather than in vowel meaning.
Historical and specialist: it belongs to manuscript and inscription spellings.
On its own, it is an incomplete spelling fragment because it is a vowel sign.
Who writes ॎ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ॎ appear on the left?
That is expected: in the text sequence, ॎ follows the consonant, but Devanagari shaping places it before the consonant. A font or app without suitable shaping support may display the sequence incorrectly.
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- Also called
- prishthamatra · pṛṣṭhamātrā · prsthamatra
- Search it as
- e-matra · old Nagari
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ॎ\094ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.